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400 Years of the First Folio: Part 1 The Folio on Display
June 5, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this first episode of a short mini-series I recount a recent journey to London to see copi...
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 2 Creating the Folio
June 19, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this second episode of a short mini-series I look at the inspiration and motivations for t...
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 3 The Folio In The World
July 3, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this third and final episode of a short mini-series I look at the printing and selling of ...
A Master At Work: The Plays of Lope de Vega
May 16, 2022
Episode 76: A discussion of a sample of the plays by Lope de Vega The Gardener's Dog: A Comedy The meaning of the title, a plot summary, the major themes. Punishment Without Vengeance: A Tragedy. A plot summary, it's debt to ...
A Statue in Verona: The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet
April 6, 2025
Episode 163 My background reading while preparing the episode on Romeo and Juliet took me to many stories about and thoughts on the afterlife of the play and its continuing influence on western culture, what follows is just a...
Boy Actors: A Conversation with Roberta Barker
Feb. 10, 2025
In the third part of this series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon, we are going deep into the world of the renaissance period boy actors, or perhaps, as ...
Casina: The Unseen Bride
Jan. 11, 2021
Episode 34 In this eisode we take a detailed look at Casina by Plautus. It is a tale of two men who try to use their slaves in a plot marry the young Casina by proxy. It has a prologue of particular interest. The usual stock ...
Commedia Dell’arte: A Selection of Scenarios
Aug. 8, 2022
Episode 82: The characters of Commedia Dell’arte may have been used in every play over and over again until they became completely familiar, but the plays themselves were more varied that you might imagine. The first preserve...
Creating a Profession: The Development of the Stage-Player
Feb. 6, 2023
Episode 90: The development of the profession of acting, of ‘stage-playing’ through the Tudor period. How the professional stage player developed out of the medieval entertainer. How travelling players became household player...
Every Man Out of his Humour: ‘Art Hath an Enemy Called Ignorance’
July 20, 2025
Episode 178: Ben Jonson's humours play 'Every Man in His Humour' was a big success and Jonson chose to name his next comedy in a very similar way, just substituting ‘in’ for ‘out’, no doubt to capitalise on the success of the...
For the Money: The Medieval Commercial Theatre
Sept. 13, 2021
Episode 61 Once the medieval theatre had moved out of the confines of the church and away from religious obligation a form of commercial theatre began, but how was money spent and income generated and was it profitable? The r...
French Renaissance Theatre part 1:The Italian Influence
Feb. 21, 2022
Episode 70 Catherine De Medici, her arrival in Paris for marriage to Henry, second son of Francis 1 st . Her cultural influence and role as wife of the King, and mother to three successive French rulers. The Hotel De Bourgog...
French Renaissance Theatre part 2: Aristotle Rules, OK?
March 7, 2022
Episode 71 The continuation of the story of Renaissance theatre in France. The rise of the two theatres in Paris as travelling players were at last allowed to perform in the city. Antoine de Montchrestien and his version of G...
Hamlet Part 2: ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark’
Nov. 9, 2025
Episode 194: Last time I left things hanging for Hamlet as, having seen the ghost of his father and resolved on revenge, he had seen his planning go awry as he mistakenly killed the old councillor Polonius while he hid behind...
Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’
July 22, 2024
Episode 127: A recap of Henry VI part one and the potential involvement of Christopher Marlowe A word on methods of authorship attribution in the context of Shakespeare and Marlowe The dating and sources of the play A synopsi...
Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’
Aug. 5, 2024
Episode 129: A brief recap on the dating and sources of the play A brief synopsis of the play The problem of multiple battlefield scenes and the depiction of violence How language in the play is used to underline the changing...
Henry IV Part 2: ‘We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight’
May 11, 2025
Episode 168: Although Shakespeare's completion of the events of Henry IV’s reign is very much a continuation of the story from part one it is a play with a very different vibe. The vigour of the battle scenes and the exubera...
John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin
July 29, 2024
Episode 128: Author John Taplin discusses researching the Stratford families of Shakespeare's time and particularly the ancestry of John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law. John Taplin spent the majority of his career in manageme...
Lysistrata: Women On Top
Aug. 31, 2020
Episode 18 Perhaps the best known of the comedies by Aristophanes Lysistrata imagines a world where women take control in an attempt to force and end the Peloponnesian war. It is sex comedy with a message as the Athenian gold...
Medieval Performance and Rehearsal
July 5, 2021
Episode 52 This episode looks at how the Corpus Christi plays were organised and staffed with actors, tradesmen and other organisers and supporters. How rehearsals were organised and what was expected of actors, including det...
Blog Posts
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet: A Return to Theatre (28th June 2021)
June 20, 2024
Last Monday night marked a return to the theatre for me, socially distanced and masked it’s true, but I had the privilege of doing it in the company of Sir Ian McKellen and his fellow cast members who have taken up residence in my local theatr…
Juliet’s Balcony and Statue, Verona, Italy
July 3, 2024
A visit to Verona will include a stop at ‘Juliet’s Balcony’ and statue. It’s nothing but a ploy, and a rather kitsch one at that, to attract tourists, but has to be admired for it’s success. Both times I have been there…
Mystere des Trois Doms
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 61: For the Money: The Medieval Commercial Theatre
Ever wondered what a medieval play script looks like? This image is a page from the script for ‘Mystere des Trois Doms’.
This play was produced in 1509 at Roma…
New Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 123: The History of New Place
Here are three images to help you visualize Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-Upon-Avon, New Place.
The first is a view of the site as it stands today. The side of the house you can see i…
The Castle of Perseverance
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 58: The Castle of Perseverance
The first thing to note is that this image is orientated with north towards the bottom of the page, the reverse of how the cardinal points of the compass are usually shown in Northern Hemisphere so…
The Peacham Drawing: Titus Andronicus
Sept. 16, 2024
'Titus Andronicus' is notable for being the subject of the only contemporary illustration of a Shakespeare play. Known as the Peacham drawing, and currently in the Library at Longleat House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquis of Bath, the dr…
The Stage Set From Valenciennes 1547
July 3, 2024
Valenciennes passion play of 1547 illustration by Hubert Cailleau
Featured in episode 53: Medieval Stage Effects
Hubert Cailleau was a stage designer and miniaturist working in the town at the time and he made sketches of the stage designs and the…
Pages
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 1 The Folio on Display
June 5, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this first episode of a short mini-series I recount a recent journey to London to see copi...
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 2 Creating the Folio
June 19, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this second episode of a short mini-series I look at the inspiration and motivations for t...
400 Years of the First Folio: Part 3 The Folio In The World
July 3, 2023
As my own small contribution to the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the printing of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays in this third and final episode of a short mini-series I look at the printing and selling of ...
A Master At Work: The Plays of Lope de Vega
May 16, 2022
Episode 76: A discussion of a sample of the plays by Lope de Vega The Gardener's Dog: A Comedy The meaning of the title, a plot summary, the major themes. Punishment Without Vengeance: A Tragedy. A plot summary, it's debt to ...
A Statue in Verona: The Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet
April 6, 2025
Episode 163 My background reading while preparing the episode on Romeo and Juliet took me to many stories about and thoughts on the afterlife of the play and its continuing influence on western culture, what follows is just a...
Boy Actors: A Conversation with Roberta Barker
Feb. 10, 2025
In the third part of this series of guest episodes before we get back to continuing the journey through the Shakespeare and Jonson cannon, we are going deep into the world of the renaissance period boy actors, or perhaps, as ...
Casina: The Unseen Bride
Jan. 11, 2021
Episode 34 In this eisode we take a detailed look at Casina by Plautus. It is a tale of two men who try to use their slaves in a plot marry the young Casina by proxy. It has a prologue of particular interest. The usual stock ...
Commedia Dell’arte: A Selection of Scenarios
Aug. 8, 2022
Episode 82: The characters of Commedia Dell’arte may have been used in every play over and over again until they became completely familiar, but the plays themselves were more varied that you might imagine. The first preserve...
Creating a Profession: The Development of the Stage-Player
Feb. 6, 2023
Episode 90: The development of the profession of acting, of ‘stage-playing’ through the Tudor period. How the professional stage player developed out of the medieval entertainer. How travelling players became household player...
Every Man Out of his Humour: ‘Art Hath an Enemy Called Ignorance’
July 20, 2025
Episode 178: Ben Jonson's humours play 'Every Man in His Humour' was a big success and Jonson chose to name his next comedy in a very similar way, just substituting ‘in’ for ‘out’, no doubt to capitalise on the success of the...
For the Money: The Medieval Commercial Theatre
Sept. 13, 2021
Episode 61 Once the medieval theatre had moved out of the confines of the church and away from religious obligation a form of commercial theatre began, but how was money spent and income generated and was it profitable? The r...
French Renaissance Theatre part 1:The Italian Influence
Feb. 21, 2022
Episode 70 Catherine De Medici, her arrival in Paris for marriage to Henry, second son of Francis 1 st . Her cultural influence and role as wife of the King, and mother to three successive French rulers. The Hotel De Bourgog...
French Renaissance Theatre part 2: Aristotle Rules, OK?
March 7, 2022
Episode 71 The continuation of the story of Renaissance theatre in France. The rise of the two theatres in Paris as travelling players were at last allowed to perform in the city. Antoine de Montchrestien and his version of G...
Hamlet Part 2: ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark’
Nov. 9, 2025
Episode 194: Last time I left things hanging for Hamlet as, having seen the ghost of his father and resolved on revenge, he had seen his planning go awry as he mistakenly killed the old councillor Polonius while he hid behind...
Henry 6th part 2: ‘The Fox Barks Not When He Would Steal the Lamb’
July 22, 2024
Episode 127: A recap of Henry VI part one and the potential involvement of Christopher Marlowe A word on methods of authorship attribution in the context of Shakespeare and Marlowe The dating and sources of the play A synopsi...
Henry 6th part 3: ‘How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown.’
Aug. 5, 2024
Episode 129: A brief recap on the dating and sources of the play A brief synopsis of the play The problem of multiple battlefield scenes and the depiction of violence How language in the play is used to underline the changing...
Henry IV Part 2: ‘We Have Heard the Chimes at Midnight’
May 11, 2025
Episode 168: Although Shakespeare's completion of the events of Henry IV’s reign is very much a continuation of the story from part one it is a play with a very different vibe. The vigour of the battle scenes and the exubera...
John Hall of Stratford-Upon-Avon: A Conversation with John Taplin
July 29, 2024
Episode 128: Author John Taplin discusses researching the Stratford families of Shakespeare's time and particularly the ancestry of John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law. John Taplin spent the majority of his career in manageme...
Lysistrata: Women On Top
Aug. 31, 2020
Episode 18 Perhaps the best known of the comedies by Aristophanes Lysistrata imagines a world where women take control in an attempt to force and end the Peloponnesian war. It is sex comedy with a message as the Athenian gold...
Medieval Performance and Rehearsal
July 5, 2021
Episode 52 This episode looks at how the Corpus Christi plays were organised and staffed with actors, tradesmen and other organisers and supporters. How rehearsals were organised and what was expected of actors, including det...
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet: A Return to Theatre (28th June 2021)
June 20, 2024
Last Monday night marked a return to the theatre for me, socially distanced and masked it’s true, but I had the privilege of doing it in the company of Sir Ian McKellen and his fellow cast members who have taken up residence in my local theatr…
Juliet’s Balcony and Statue, Verona, Italy
July 3, 2024
A visit to Verona will include a stop at ‘Juliet’s Balcony’ and statue. It’s nothing but a ploy, and a rather kitsch one at that, to attract tourists, but has to be admired for it’s success. Both times I have been there…
Mystere des Trois Doms
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 61: For the Money: The Medieval Commercial Theatre
Ever wondered what a medieval play script looks like? This image is a page from the script for ‘Mystere des Trois Doms’.
This play was produced in 1509 at Roma…
New Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 123: The History of New Place
Here are three images to help you visualize Shakespeare’s house in Stratford-Upon-Avon, New Place.
The first is a view of the site as it stands today. The side of the house you can see i…
The Castle of Perseverance
July 7, 2024
Featured in episode 58: The Castle of Perseverance
The first thing to note is that this image is orientated with north towards the bottom of the page, the reverse of how the cardinal points of the compass are usually shown in Northern Hemisphere so…
The Peacham Drawing: Titus Andronicus
Sept. 16, 2024
'Titus Andronicus' is notable for being the subject of the only contemporary illustration of a Shakespeare play. Known as the Peacham drawing, and currently in the Library at Longleat House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquis of Bath, the dr…
The Stage Set From Valenciennes 1547
July 3, 2024
Valenciennes passion play of 1547 illustration by Hubert Cailleau
Featured in episode 53: Medieval Stage Effects
Hubert Cailleau was a stage designer and miniaturist working in the town at the time and he made sketches of the stage designs and the…
